Industries

MARKET SHARE & RANKINGS

• Business Rankings Annual (via Business & Company Resource Center)
  A compilation of rankings data taken from previously published sources such as newspapers and trade journals. 
  
  
• Consumer USA 2009 (REF BUS HF5410.C66 2009)
  Print resource.  Besides demographic data, provides a range of market information including brand shares and sales forecasts on over 320 consumer products (e.g, microwaves, bread). Table of contents.
  
  
• Forbes.com: Lists
  Forbes 500s, International 500, Largest Private Companies and more...
  
  
• Fortune.com: All Fortune Lists
  Fortune 500, Global 500, Best Companies to Work For and more...
  
  
• Gary Price's List of Lists Collection of free and fee-based online rankings of companies and persons.  Rankings organized into 23 categories such as Construction, Education, and Country/Region Specific.  Masterlist of covered magazines.
  
  
• Global Edge, Research Rankings: Company Level
  Links to rankings of international companies.
  
  
• Mainebiz 2009 Book of Lists (REF HB3525 M2.F34)
  Print resource. Provides 33 lists of rankings of different Maine industries.  Table of contents (pdf).
  
  
• Market Share Reporter (via Business & Company Resource Center) 
  Updated quarterly, the Market Share Reporter (MSR) provides market share data on companies (e.g., “Top Cookie Makers”), types of products, commodities, and services (e.g., “Cookie Sales by Type”), brand names (e.g., “Top Cookie Brands”), and miscellaneous categories (e.g., “Tax Collections by State”). MSR compiles data mainly from newspapers, popular magazines, and trade journals. 
  
  
• Mergent Industry Review (REF HG 4961 M68) 
  Print resource.  Company rankings within 74 industries.  Companies are ranked by revenue, net income, operating profit margin, return on capital, return on assets, working capital, cash and securities, current ratio, price/earnings ratio, yield,  and price score.  Updated twice yearly.
  
  
• TableBase (via AlacraStore)
  Enables searchers to search tables and table captions extracted from over 900 business publications.  Hosted by the fee-based website AlacraStore.  Limited search options.  Result citations provide date, journal title, and table title. 

Revised by Stephen Fadel, 10/23/2009
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